Acts 27:4

UNDER THE LEE OF CYPRUS. Acts 27:4.

Acts 27:4

And putting to sea from thence, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

Acts 27:4. ... they put to sea again, running briskly north till above the upper coast of Cyprus, but having constantly to tack as soon as they steered west, the wind now being against them.

Having at last, however, reached that island, they ran as close as they could under its lee; their headway still slow; their poor daily advance being, as hitherto, won only by assiduous tacking. They would, thus, often run close in towards Asia Minor, in full sight of the glorious range of the Taurus mountains beyond whose snow peaks the thoughts of the apostle must often have wandered to the churches of the central tableland which he loved so dearly as his children in Christ and which he knew he would never see again. How were they faring? Had grievous wolves, entering in, troubled them? Would they quit them like men and, after all, be his crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus?

972.

What is meant by the expression tacking?

973.

What do you suppose was in the mind of the apostle as they came in sight of the Taurus mountains?